On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 19:51:31 GMT, Jatin Bhateja <jbhat...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Hi All, >> >> As per the discussion on panama-dev mailing list[1], patch adds the support >> for following new vector operators. >> >> >> . SUADD : Saturating unsigned addition. >> . SADD : Saturating signed addition. >> . SUSUB : Saturating unsigned subtraction. >> . SSUB : Saturating signed subtraction. >> . UMAX : Unsigned max >> . UMIN : Unsigned min. >> >> >> New vector operators are applicable to only integral types since their >> values wraparound in over/underflowing scenarios after setting appropriate >> status flags. For floating point types, as per IEEE 754 specs there are >> multiple schemes to handler underflow, one of them is gradual underflow >> which transitions the value to subnormal range. Similarly, overflow >> implicitly saturates the floating-point value to an Infinite value. >> >> As the name suggests, these are saturating operations, i.e. the result of >> the computation is strictly capped by lower and upper bounds of the result >> type and is not wrapped around in underflowing or overflowing scenarios. >> >> Summary of changes: >> - Java side implementation of new vector operators. >> - Add new scalar saturating APIs for each of the above saturating vector >> operator in corresponding primitive box classes, fallback implementation of >> vector operators is based over it. >> - C2 compiler IR and inline expander changes. >> - Optimized x86 backend implementation for new vector operators and their >> predicated counterparts. >> - Extends existing VectorAPI Jtreg test suite to cover new operations. >> >> Kindly review and share your feedback. >> >> Best Regards, >> PS: Intrinsification and auto-vectorization of new core-lib API will be >> addressed separately in a follow-up patch. >> >> [1] https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/panama-dev/2024-May/020408.html > > Jatin Bhateja has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional > commit since the last revision: > > Doc fixups src/jdk.incubator.vector/share/classes/jdk/incubator/vector/VectorMath.java line 30: > 28: * The class {@code VectorMath} contains methods for performing > 29: * scalar numeric operations in support of vector numeric operations. > 30: * @author Paul Sandoz We no longer use the `@author` tag on newly added classes, can you please remove it? ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20507#discussion_r1786769928
